--- title: Aegon Asset Management Case Study - ICON Agility Services description: ICON Agility Services, SAFe Agile Transformation Customer Success Story with Aegon Asset Management. image: https://info.iconagility.com/hubfs/ICON_Training_Aegon_SPC_Class.jpg --- [![ICON Agility Services](https://info.iconagility.com/hubfs/Icon_Logo_CMYK_Final%20(1).svg "ICON Agility Services")](https://www.iconagility.com/) Open main menu Close main menu # Implementing Agile Transformation at Aegon Asset Management ![ICON_Client_Logo_Aegon](https://info.iconagility.com/hubfs/ICON_Client_Logo_Aegon.svg "ICON_Client_Logo_Aegon") [Aegon Asset Management (AAM)](https://www.aegonam.com/) is a global active investment manager that helps people achieve a lifetime of financial security. Led by ICON SPCT [Charlene M. Cuenca](https://blog.iconagility.com/author/charlene-m-cuenca?hsLang=en), AAM began implementing SAFe in 2017 to align Business and IT on capacity and demand. In a year, AAM united their US, UK, and Netherlands divisions under one SAFe® Portfolio. They also created a Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) capability to encompass all 3 locations, which provided an unprecedented level of openness and transparency. Today, SAFe practices and principles are integral to AAM, whose employees visibly protect the Lean-Agile way of working.   ##### ***Industry:*** - Financial Services ##### ***Transformation Type:*** - Full SAFe® Transformation - Lean Portfolio Management ##### ***ICON Coaches: *** - Charlene Cuenca - Tom Boulet ##### ***Challenges:*** - Align Business and IT on capacity and demand - Keep teams synchronized across borders - Reconfigure Global Architecture Organization  ##### ***Solution:*** - SAFe v4.5 - SAFe Agile Architecture Program ##### ***AAM Transformation Highlights:*** - United 3 different portfolios under one global portfolio process with a robust LPM capability, reinvigorating the communication between 3 offices and increasing respect for each other - Trained ⅓ of all AAM employees in SAFe (SAFe SM, SAFe POPM, SA, SP, RTE, leadership, architecture, SPC) - Coached and started Agile HR concepts - Formed a global enterprise LACE and an executive LACE (known as the Lean-Agile Transformation Teams, or the LATTe and the eLATTe) ##### ***Best Practices:*** - **SAFe Agile Architecture Program -** view the positive results in the below webinar: "*Coming Down from the Ivory Tower Agile Architecture with SAFe."* ##### ***Partners:*** - Scaled Agile, Inc. [Learn more about Aegon's Transformation in this success story published by Scaled Agile, Inc.](https://scaledagile.com/videos/aegon-asset-management/) [![ICON and Aegon SPC Training Class](https://info.iconagility.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ICON_Training_Aegon_SPC_Class.jpg?width=500&height=281&name=ICON_Training_Aegon_SPC_Class.jpg "ICON and Aegon SPC Training Class")](https://www.iconagility.com/training/index.php) > “We saw SAFe as providing a unifying structure to get our different units working together in the same way.” > > > > ![Aegon Asset Management - ICON Customer Logo](https://info.iconagility.com/hs-fs/hubfs/aegon-logo.png?width=100&height=100&name=aegon-logo.png) > >   > > - Philip Johnson, Head of Global PMO, Aegon Asset Management ## Case Study Aegon Asset Management | ICON explains agile transformation at Aegon --- ### Coming Down from the Ivory Tower: Agile Architecture with SAFe® This webinar covers the Aegon business agility case study, including: - SAFe Architecture Concepts - The AAM Transformation Story and how SAFe Agile Architecture was implemented - Challenges and how they were overcome - The AAM Architecture Team's current state and how it impacted the overall AAM Transformation (including metrics) ## Explore More Business Agility Case Studies [*Business Agility Case Study: Johnson Controls*](https://info.iconagility.com/jci-customer-story?hsLang=en) [See Customer Reviews](https://info.iconagility.com/reviews/customers/?hsLang=en) [ICON Customers](https://info.iconagility.com/hubfs/ICON_Client_List.pdf?hsLang=en) ### Ready to share your business agility needs? ![icon-agility-services_logo_2023](https://info.iconagility.com/hubfs/Icon_Logo_CMYK_Final%20(1).svg) ICON Agility Services 17999 Chesterfield Airport Rd Chesterfield, MO 63005 [1-636-530-7776](tel:+16365307776) [info@iconagility.com](mailto:info@iconagility.com) © ICON Agility Services. All rights reserved. [Privacy Policy](https://www.iconagility.com/privacy)